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The girl can't help it, 20th Century Fox ; screenplay by Frank Tashlin and Herbert Baker ; produced and directed by Frank Tashlin
The resource The girl can't help it, 20th Century Fox ; screenplay by Frank Tashlin and Herbert Baker ; produced and directed by Frank Tashlin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.
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  • "In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he'd honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster's bombshell girlfriend--the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role--and the washed-up talent agent (Tom Ewell) who seeks to revive his career by turning her into a musical sensation. The only question is: Can she sing? A CinemaScope feast of eye-popping midcentury design, it bops along to a parade of performances by rock-and-roll trailblazers--including Little Richard, Fats Domino, Julie London, Eddie Cochran, the Platters, and Gene Vincent--who light up the screen with the uniquely American sound that was about to conquer the world"--Container
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  • eng
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  • DVD special edition.
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  • Originally released as a motion picture in 1956
  • Wide screen
  • Special features: Audio commentary featuring scholar Toby Miller; New video essay by film critic David Cairns; Interview with filmmaker John Waters; New conversation between WFMU DJs Dave "the Spazz" Abramson and Gaylord Fields about the music in the film; New interview with Eve Golden, author of "Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It"; On-set footage; Interviews with actor Jayne Mansfield (1957) and musician Little Richard (1984); Episode of Karina Longworth's podcast "You must remember this" about Mansfield; Trailer; booklet containing an essay by critic Rachel Syme
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  • 1 videodisc (97 min.), sound, color, 4 3/4 in.
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  • videodisc
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  • 9781681439280
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